[SpamCop-List] Re: This site best viewed with anything but IE?!?!

[Gary Wardell]

Thanks Mike, that helps a lot.

I'm a long time user of M$ products and I'm also quite familiar with e-mail
protocols.

FWTW. OE, AFAIK, is also the last remaining M$ product that reads
newsgroups, like this one.

So really, what you are saying is when OL stores the messages it discards
the MIME message separators.

I was thinking what was being said was the headers at the start of the
messages, the Received, From, To, Subject, etc. lines; were somehow messed
up.

Also, in my lexicon, discarding is not quite the same as foobaring.  To me
foobaring implies altering or overwriting or mistranslating.

Gary


"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:cbmb3r$jms$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>
> Those faq/s don't really tell the OL story.  I think it is 'easiest' -
> altho' not necessarily quick - to describe the OL situation in contrast
> to OE, which does a good job of storing the original mailitem and making
> it accessible to the user for submitting into the webparser or email
> submissions.  Whatever other things might be wrong with OE, it is useful
> for submitting an original spamitem to spamcop.
>
> OL functions completely differently.  OL is a MAPI client for the MS
> Office suite - not at all designed to be a spam handler submitter.  To
> fulfill its mapi role, MS decided to have OL detach the headers from the
> body, and then to convert the body into a 'mapi-ized' version of the
> original and store that in a proprietary store form.
>
> Then, when some user wants the headers and body to submit to some abuse
> desk or spamcop, the original is gone.
>